31 May 2008

Thank you

Saying Something is looking fantastic at the moment. Just looking at May there is a wonderful array of different art forms and styles. I feel there's something of a unity going on - everyone has different ideas and styles, but there's a kind of oneness where styles and forms are linking.

Thank you everyone for posting :-)

Simon

juan carlos ochoa.



http://www.ochoaart.com/daily/

Vespers (61)

repeat
pale river
until darkness falls

around soft loam
the night
sounds

familiar
and unknown
receding into pause

when mind alone
refracts untidy
interruptions

past
our speech
a new ontology

small frogs offer
syllables intact
meaning

30 May 2008

what about us


The original fractal I made in Apophysis and altered it in The Gimp.

The title is just the song I happened to be listening at the time. (From the Italian trip-hop band, Black Era)

Nighttime Reflection



How it happened:
I was inside a hotel room, behind the window. I shot the balcony at a weird angle, catching the curtain from inside in the reflection. It was also raining pretty badly that evening, so that may also help explain this image. That alongside some dirt on the window that can account for the misty look.

Coz we now create da media

Coz we now create da media
we shove emoticize sense
or we employ agents to redirect
intent shun the spurs

I shouldn't read this
I wouldn't if I were you
I probably shouldn't write it
my electronic publisher

rasped by decadent clitoral by-
standers, roaming as art moderne, I should
(realising now as if I should 'ave got it
twice as frank as you)

incensed by the incredible amount of media
not bovvvered whether it good
bad or indifferent i un
sense distance coz

we should have patented the whole
game, call it a new renaissance, we
should be more broad minded and
not so passive or broody

neurosis, psychosis, Alzheimers
OCD, paranoia - I wouldn't worry about this lot
I'd worry about Chicken flu and
sittin' the Sun too long

But I'm far too bloody-minded
for this game of soldiers
Cancer, isolation, illnesses caused by emotions
they bother me more than a

bit of worry by a thing that ain't
gonna happen, duck yes mobile phone
testosterone, see ca va? this is it
the whole fuckin shootin match

on yer interactive telly - you won't
think the same again my friend
these are the texts the re writing
of knowledge thought and its

consekwensez in action. hey!
yoo don't have to believe me
but if i shout a bit
your more likely to turn your head

and listen before some other fucker
gits the limelight, with a dodgy degree
and some time in the spot light
from reading this text here


*poem may need to be read backwards, however this is not necessary, but you may reperceive the meaning/intention if you do. If you prefer, you can read a couple of verses backwards and one forwards. But this isn't the thought-police and you can read it how you like!

25 May 2008

The End of Postmodernism

Hi

I found this wonderful article "The End of Postmodernism" by Dr. W.Large.
This is one of very few articles relating to Postmodernity that have had any positive effect upon me. Most seem to rehash the same (rather anxious) ideas, often concluding that Postmodernity is a kind of pointlessness of everything!! How ridiculous! Admittedly the changes we are going through are profound and occurring very quickly, but they are changes that will lead to societies that will identify with something more cohesive and certain. I love the way Dr. Large points out that "binary opposition" (of thought and categorisation of things/phenomena) is actually becoming redundant and leads to a position where Postmodern articles attack this mode of comprehension, when, to the general public, it is obviously inapt! By doing this, articles on Postmodernity actually continue the (static) position of Postmodernism and, ultimately argue against a Modernism that (like Ecriture) is no longer relevant, except to those that consider it!

Dr. Large also ridicules the idea that Postmodernity is about anything cultural. He describes it as being synonymous with capitalism. There is little doubt that Western societies are becoming more and more capitalist! He also describes it as a continuation of Modernity, rather than a distinct cultural movement. I strongly agree with this. His notes on the arts and capitalism, bring hope to arts practitioners for the future and an explanation of the current over-commercialism of the arts.

Simon

24 May 2008

Reappearance


Digital art inspired by Undiagnosed Lady by Angela Genusa. Thank you to Miss Boux for allowing me to use her photograph in this picture.
Simon

23 May 2008

Apparency


Digital Art work, using one of Miss Bouxs' self-portraits.
Simon

18 May 2008

New Found Freedom

[Internet escapism]

Sssh!

Another Space Race required?

Strange Edit

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in response to http://www.flickr.com/photos/packageinsertofsorrows/2494088662/
by Angela Genusa

Simon

12 May 2008

RMD P2P NIP

robot messenger p2p

Vespers (60)

reason seeps away
languor taps out
code
brackets relax

is night merely
absence of routine
light

silence
not the same
as prayer
evades
timbre

the drift
of a secure
awareness glides
into a higher
ordered quiet

clear
as the few things
that cut through
spaces between
that do not divide

10 May 2008

1

An art is creating inspiration
the blank page of esoteria.
Narcissus unfolds his lust
for examination

He wonders why now, he
cannot touch his reflection?

If he reflects his reflection
by a waterless prism
maybe his aforementioned flower
would be more pluckable?


*

The camera's eye, the novel
An eye by another's eye
would conquer a whole world of limitations

backed by legislations, the
squeeze and squash could rely
upon an eye for an eye
an automated artist

Spinning fanciful near realities
academic truths
a scuppered soul breathed
into an artificial arene.

*

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"daughter" "histoire" emphasize cr ate
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I need a new art movement
Sappho? Morgan?

I feel his armour rushingthrough tangles of trees

I need a new art movementSappho? Morgan?

I feel his armour rushingthrough tangles of trees

(A big pay cheque would

make my poem a film)

Mordred, son of a sorcerer

and sorceress

Maddened by spells and evil.

He rises when the king is

sick and the land is as barren

as artificiality.

Once we have driven for miles,

when due New York weather

in pepper-clouded English skies

we catch the spell of a rainbow

bold, visible yet, quite impossible.

Before the Sun sets deep red

like in oriental skies

our rainbows appear, momentarily

Orange white and green

As if the "yellow brick road"

lead (by some strange apparition)

East, East and further still!

Fish out of Water